Good Night Copenhagen
The past few days have been a flurry of activity before leaving for Canada. Both Kendrick and I had a lot of work to wrap up, job wise and wedding wise. And because we wanted to say goodbye to some people in Copenhagen before we left, we decided to have a small farewell dinner for the people who have been with us since the beginning. "Small" ballooned out to seven guests, and we realized after we invited everybody that we were deficient in wine glasses, knives, forks, and chairs - not to mention table space! Problem #1 was solved when Kenneth (my manager) asked me what kind of present I would want to have from the collection they raised for my sendoff. Wine glasses, I exclaimed!! So thanks to those generous folks at my work, Kendrick and I received 12 white wine glasses, 12 red wine glasses, and Danish designed bottle opening gadgets (don't ask me to get specific, I didn't use any of them myself!). The rest of the missing items were simply put on a shopping list for today and checked off one by one. Even the chairs - we had to hunt around but we found a store called SuperBrugsen selling foldout chairs for 300DKK (60CAD) each, or 4 for 150DKK (30CAD). We bought four, although I guess we should have checked to see if 8 would go for 75DKK.
On Friday Kendrick and I cooked up a storm. If you don't know by now, Kendrick and I tend to avoid cooking. We prefer to have others cook for us, preferably in a restaurant setting. So cooking for nine turned out to be a big logistical as well as psychological challenge. Dinner was 1.25 hours late because of our inexperience, but I have to say Kendrick and I really worked well as a team. As Cesar would say, we were, a-mazing. Unfortunately in a frenzy of shallot-chopping, I accidentally sliced off a small half crescent from my thumbnail. It doesn't hurt at all but I'm thinking I might want to hide my thumb from my wedding pictures because it looks weird, like some rodent took a chomp out of my nail! Oh well that's why they invented press-ons. So anyways, the star ingredient of the night was butter. Lots and lots of butter!
After dinner the boys wanted to take Kendrick out for a drink. I joined them for one awful bloody Mary at L.A. Bar just down the street. On the way I took a spin on Jordi's bike and tried to pop a wheelie. I think I got it maybe 2 inches off the ground. Man I remember when I could lift that front wheel way above my head, back on my yellow banana seat bike. Speaking of bananas, I taught Mauro the expression for a chinese person arriving empty-handed. We say the person has brought two bunches of bananas - presumably the hands are yellow and fingers could pass for bananas!
I came home after one drink, and Kendrick was whisked away to some other unknown location. He just came home, completely smashed. I had to tuck him and now I am finishing the cleaning up. Smokey clothes are in the washer, one more load of dirty dishes is starting up, and then I'm crashing for the night. It's 3am now, and we wake up at 6am to catch our flight. Keep the home fires burning, we'll be back very soon!
On Friday Kendrick and I cooked up a storm. If you don't know by now, Kendrick and I tend to avoid cooking. We prefer to have others cook for us, preferably in a restaurant setting. So cooking for nine turned out to be a big logistical as well as psychological challenge. Dinner was 1.25 hours late because of our inexperience, but I have to say Kendrick and I really worked well as a team. As Cesar would say, we were, a-mazing. Unfortunately in a frenzy of shallot-chopping, I accidentally sliced off a small half crescent from my thumbnail. It doesn't hurt at all but I'm thinking I might want to hide my thumb from my wedding pictures because it looks weird, like some rodent took a chomp out of my nail! Oh well that's why they invented press-ons. So anyways, the star ingredient of the night was butter. Lots and lots of butter!
After dinner the boys wanted to take Kendrick out for a drink. I joined them for one awful bloody Mary at L.A. Bar just down the street. On the way I took a spin on Jordi's bike and tried to pop a wheelie. I think I got it maybe 2 inches off the ground. Man I remember when I could lift that front wheel way above my head, back on my yellow banana seat bike. Speaking of bananas, I taught Mauro the expression for a chinese person arriving empty-handed. We say the person has brought two bunches of bananas - presumably the hands are yellow and fingers could pass for bananas!
I came home after one drink, and Kendrick was whisked away to some other unknown location. He just came home, completely smashed. I had to tuck him and now I am finishing the cleaning up. Smokey clothes are in the washer, one more load of dirty dishes is starting up, and then I'm crashing for the night. It's 3am now, and we wake up at 6am to catch our flight. Keep the home fires burning, we'll be back very soon!
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